yup yup... got so many japanese stuff at daimaru, liang court...

not that far now that they have NEL rite?!
tink can take mrt to clarke quay isn't it?? shld be walking distance from thr?
me not sure cos' i hvn't even try the NEL...

kook05 wrote:

yup yup... got so many japanese stuff at daimaru, liang court... not that far now that they have NEL rite?! tink can take mrt to clarke quay isn't it?? shld be walking distance from thr? me not sure cos' i hvn't even try the NEL...

i used to take the free shuttle bus from city hall mrt station..bt think the time is onli from 12 to 2.30 or sth....it fetches you right to the doorstep of Liang Court..just below the kinokuniya

yup they have a lot of authentic jap restaurants there....but qte a few have shifted...and i still rem last time their waitresses wore the cotton kimono...kawaii~~

but i miss the ice cream counter where they have a big display fridge displaying various kind of ice cream SLURP

Pemu wrote:

Has anyone ever tried a Japanese breakfast? Especially a raw egg mixed into rice, ugh! It looked awful, tasted "different".

not bad ... yummy

Michi wrote:

Pemu wrote: Has anyone ever tried a Japanese breakfast? Especially a raw egg mixed into rice, ugh! It looked awful, tasted "different". not bad ... yummy

Better than natto beans mixed into rice

i would really like to try an authentic bentou in japan.. esp those they sell at the train stations.. awww..

arashinokoto wrote:

i would really like to try an authentic bentou in japan.. esp those they sell at the train stations.. awww..

yupz u shld when u go japan cause they are very delicious... so far the bento i tried in singapore are those sold in Daimaru....not too bad..bt nothing beats the real thing

hey guys!
stop it stop it!
u r tempting me!

Joyce wrote:

y japanese from Osaka wanna throw salts at those ppl that they think are unlucky?(see this from the Risou no kekkon )

found it
Jp ppl believe that salt has power to purify sins and evilness
that's y they'll throw salt at ppl who looks unlucky..

this is what my friend told me..

juliana_phang wrote:

Joyce wrote: y japanese from Osaka wanna throw salts at those ppl that they think are unlucky?(see this from the Risou no kekkon ) found it Jp ppl believe that salt has power to purify sins and evilness that's y they'll throw salt at ppl who looks unlucky.. this is what my friend told me..

oic....thks for the info...
btw...i m juz curious..if they accidentally throw the salts at the wrong ppl, wat will they do?
or it will be better that way...
i noe i m veri troublesome

Joyce wrote:

oic....thks for the info... btw...i m juz curious..if they accidentally throw the salts at the wrong ppl, wat will they do? or it will be better that way... i noe i m veri troublesome

wait..i'll get the answer in a jiffy
to what i think..maybe that fella will turn to be bad luck
hhaha
just my guess
let me get the real answer

juliana_phang wrote:

wait..i'll get the answer in a jiffy to what i think..maybe that fella will turn to be bad luck hhaha just my guess let me get the real answer

thks...
btw...did u ask a japanese frenz for the ans? how i wish i have 1, so that i can ask him/ her directly...

Joyce wrote:

thks... btw...did u ask a japanese frenz for the ans? how i wish i have 1, so that i can ask him/ her directly...

yeap
hehe
just sms-ed him

ok..
he says it wont change that fella's luck
the purpose of this salt throwing thing is just to purify bad things
so it's not harm throwing at the wrong person


oh n yeah..u can get jpnese pen-pal from this site
http://www.japan-guide.com/penfriend/index_e.php

thks juliana_phang....

Joyce wrote:

thks juliana_phang....

douitashimashite

i would like to learn more the japanese culture, can anyone help me?
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Wrong place to ask, not relevant. Jules, close plz.
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niko2x wrote:

Wrong place to ask, not relevant. Jules, close plz.

why'd you say that? may i ask?
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merry cristmas!

zhyper_09 wrote:

why'd you say that? may i ask?

The topic and the content are totally irrelevant. If you'd like to know more about Japanese culture, I highly suggest readin travel and Japanese culture books and of course lookin for decent Japan info sites.

Some useful links regardin Japan and its culture:
http://www.infohub.com/TravelGuide/TRAVELLER/ASIA/japan.html
http://www.travel-library.com/asia/japan/
http://www.tcvb.or.jp/tour.html
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/
http://www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/index2.html
http://www.jinjapan.org/trends/index.html
http://www.realjapan.net/02/

Btw the topic could be renamed and moved to the other section.

Can someone list all the dialects of Japan? And I was watching a movie, and one of the characters says that in Okinawa they believe that men comes from a woman's rib, can someone confirm this? Thanks.

gohmifune wrote:

Can someone list all the dialects of Japan? And I was watching a movie, and one of the characters says that in Okinawa they believe that men comes from a woman's rib, can someone confirm this? Thanks.

I'm sorry that I don't know enough about Okinawa creation myths to answer your second question.

But the answer to your first question is, "no."

The problem is that Japan used to be a society where leaving your home was forbidden to anyone without permits, and that kind of (even partial) isolation leads to every community developing its own distinctive regional dialect.

For example, I once visited a friend's family in Yonezawa. My friend's grandfather spoke Yonezawa-ben (dialect) which was a variation on the Yamagata dialect, which itself is a subset of the Touhoku dialect. But Yonezawa residents are quite proud of their dialect, and although the rest of my friend's family tried to speak something close to Tokyo dialect to me (so I could understand them), they were all very proud that the grandfather's dialect was strictly Yonezawa-ben and nothing else. And Japan is riddled with towns like Yonezawa.

Of course there are social class, gender, ethnic, and other dialects as well.

A list, even for a linguist studying Japanese, would probably be very problematic and a waste of time. You might as well just list all of the towns in Japan.